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(Trinidad Express) Express reporter Akile Simon and CCN TV6 cameraman Brendon Alexander were yesterday remanded in prison following their appearance before an Arima magistrate on charges of robbery in Arouca on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) She didn’t use the term Cabinet reshuffle. But Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced last night that she would undertake a “reconfiguration” of her Cabinet and of the membership of State boards.

A release from the Georgetown Hospital today said that at around 06:00h this morning, there was a temporary breakage of a 2” Main Waterline within the ceiling of the Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre (ACDC) building in the region of the Accident and Emergency Unit, which affected the smooth functioning of that and neighbouring departments.

Police say that at about 09:45 hrs. yesterday,  ranks on a mobile anti crime patrol operating in police Division ‘D’ intercepted and executed a search of a vehicle with three male occupants on the Leonora Public Road and unearthed one  .38 revolver with six (6) live matching rounds, found under the front passenger seat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican entertainer Busy Signal has waived his right to an extradition hearing to go to the US to be tried for absconding bail.

MILAN, (Reuters) – Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex during at least one party at his luxury villa outside Milan, a witness said today at a trial where he is accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

(Trinidad Guardian) A TT$2 million contract has been awarded by the Transport Ministry to security company Pegasus Limited to set up a Global Positioning System (GPS) for the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC).

(Trinidad Guardian) Former manager of the West Indies cricket team Omar Khan says the time has come for the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to have a full time sports psychologist attached to the team.

(Trinidad Express) Justice of Appeal Wendell Kangaloo will be flown to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for further treatment as soon as doctors give his family the all clear allowing him to be moved.

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) prepares to launch its new Port of Spain to London service next month, but with fewer flights than previously announced.

A section of the Meadow Bank wharf on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) collapsed this morning and fishermen subsequently listed a number of problems affecting the industry including a “dysfunctional” co-op society.

(Jamaica Observer) The US-based rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service, has downgraded the credit ratings of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) by one notch from Aaa to Aa1.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A June 8 sentencing date has been set for confessed Jamaican crime boss Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who is facing 23 years behind bars in the United States on racketeering and conspiracy charges.

(Barbados Nation) Saying count them out, two of Barbados’ leading private sector groups have distanced themselves from a recent political poll.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has a whopping food import bill in excess of Bds$700 million and Barbadians are being asked for their input to reduce it.

(Trinidad Newsday) As if moved by the spirit, her voice cracking, Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development Verna St Rose-Greaves yesterday jumped around her seat in frustration in the Senate as she lamented the sexual abuse that has been meted out to children in this country over the years.

(Trinidad Express) After three years of slump, Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is not recovering, and crime and labour unrest are making matters worse.

(Trinidad Express) Government has chosen to avoid the controversial issue of gay sex and has said no to sexual activity between minors of the same sex.

LONDON, (Reuters) – One of Britain’s most respected journalists said today that former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago, the latest twist in a scandal that has so far centred on Rupert Murdoch.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer, the former president and general secretary of the CONCACAF confederation, were guilty of financial mismanagement on a grand scale during their years in office, delegates were told at their congress today.